The Candy Shop War

Every one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about The Candy Shop War. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.

1. 1

   Early in the book

   In what book does a kids' club called the Blue Falcons switch from a detective agency to a trespassing club?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   Summer explains the club's history to Nate when he first meets them. They sent out flyers as detectives but only Pigeon's mom hired them to buy groceries, so they pivoted to treasure hunting and finally to sneaking into places like a water-processing plant.

2. 2

   First half

   In what book is a kid swatted out of midair by a man wielding a long pool skimmer?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   Nate is bounding toward a backyard rooftop with a Moon Rock when his pursuer grabs a skimmer from beside the peanut shaped pool and knocks him down to the lawn. The man then lifts him up by his shirt and demands to know how he can defy gravity.

3. 3

   First half

   In what book do kids digging up a grave find a golden spyglass inside an ivory box?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   After retrieving the box from the coffin of Hanaver Mills, the kids open it and find a teleidoscope, a hybrid between a telescope and a kaleidoscope, wrapped in silky fabric. The device later proves to hold hidden clues about the location of a buried treasure.

4. 4

   Second half

   In what book does a boy step into a dark mirror world and announce, "Welcome to Wonderland"?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   Trevor crawls through the alley mirror first, with a flashlight, and greets Nate that way as they enter the silent reflection realm to break into the candy shop. They soon discover their hearts no longer beat and they never need to breathe.

5. 5

   Second half

   In what book does a Persian cat complain in perfect English about being treated as an errand girl?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   Pigeon gives Brain Feed to Jasmine, a tawny brown Persian, in the mayor's parlor. The kibble grants animals temporary human intelligence, and Jasmine slips him a clue that Belinda White has been calling about Hanaver Mills memorabilia.

6. 6

   Near the end

   In what book does a boy say "Down the hatch" and dump blue sand from an hourglass into his mouth?

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   The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

   Stranded in the wrecked truck with the coyote version of Mr. Stott, Nate spits out his Ironhide jawbreaker and swallows the blue grains. His mind soars back about two weeks and lands in Colson inside the body of a grown man.